CONTENTS THE FRANCISCAN MONASTERIES. CHAPTER I. Monastery of Donegal, 1 CHAPTER II. O'Neill's letter to James I. — Carr, earl of Somerset — Camden's Annals — The Spanish Armada — Lord deputy Fitzwilliams — Archbishop Loftus — Execution of Hugh Gaveloc — Monastery of Adare, 19 CHAPTER III. Tyrone and the Bagnalls — His marriage to Mabel — The Monasteries of Drogheda and Dundalk, 28 CHAPTER IV. The Monastery at Multifeman — Origin of the Name — Foundation of the Monastery — The Delamers — The Nugents of Delvin and Donore — The Monastery plundered and burnt by tbe English — The Friars imprisoned in the Castle of Baltimore — Escape of Father Mooney — Cruelties perpetrated on the Prisoners — Richard Brady, Dishop of Kilmore — Re-establishment of the Friars in Multifernan — Notice of distinguished Members of the Community, 40 CHAPTER V. Church and Monastery of Kilcrea — Its beautiful Site and Architecture — The Tomb of MacCarthy of Muskerry — The Church and Monastery plundered in 1584 — Again in 1599 — Fathers MacCarthy and O'Sullivan — Church and Monastery of Timoleague — Plundered and damaged by English Soldiers, who are cut to pieces by O'Sullivan, Prince of Bear — Lyons, Protestant Bishop of Cork — Dilapidates Timoleague — Persecutes the Catholics, 52 CHAPTER VI. Convents of Moyne, Rosserick, and Kilconnell, 59 CHAPTER VII. Monasteries of Galway, Rosserilly, Kenalehan, and Creevalea, 73 CHAPTER VIII. Monastery of Clonmel, 87 THE IRISH HIERARCHY. CHAPTER I. Rinuccini chased by a Parliament frigate — Lands in Ireland — His reception in Limerick — Cornelius O'Dea — Legend of the mitre — O'Dwyer, bishop of Limericks — O'Queely, archbishop of Tuam — Hia death, obsequies, epitaph, 94 CHAPTER II. Rinuccini's reception in Kilkenny — T. Walsh, archbishop of Cashel — Shearman, the schoolmaster's letter — Archbishop Walsh's epitaph, 107 CHAPTER III. Fleming, archbishop of Dublin — M. de Oviedo — O'Deveny, bishop of Down and Connor — His execution — Eugene MacMahon, archbishop of Dublin — Patrick Cahill, P.P., SS. Michael and John, 120 CHAPTER IV. John de, Burgo, archbishop of Tuam — His contest with Rinuccini — Is compelled to quit Ireland — Returns, and dies — His epitaph, by O' Flaherty and O'Meara, 137 CHAPTER V. MacCaghwell, archbishop of Armagh — Hugh O'Reilly — Malmorra, The Slasher — Dease, bishop of Meath — His epitaph, 156 CHAPTER VI. Rothe, bishop of Ossory — His writings — Death — Place of sepulture, 174 CHAPTER VII. Peter Lombard — The Waddings — Comerford, bishop of Waterford — Death of, 197 CHAPTER VIII. Terence A. O'Brien — His early life — Advanced to the bishopric of Limerick — Arrested by Ireton — His execution, 215 CHAPTER IX. Heber or Emer MacMahon, bishop of Clogher — His early career — Death of Owen Roe O'Neill — MacMahon takes command of the Ulster army — Is defeated by Coote, near Letterkenny — His last moments and execution, 234 Digitized by Google.

"The papers in this volume first appeared in the Hibernian magazine ... The opening part ... [is] little more than ... a free version of Father Mooney's Latin manuscript History of the Irish Franciscan houses."

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